Abstract
The potential to use waste heat to co-generate cooling and fresh water from saline water using adsorption on silica is attracting increasing attention. A variety of different thermodynamic cycles of such an adsorption desalination (AD) system arise as the temperature of the saline water evaporator is varied relative to temperature of the water used to cool the adsorbent as it adsorbs the evaporated water. In this paper, all these possible thermodynamic cycles are enumerated and analysed to determine their relative performances in terms of specific energy consumption and fresh water productivity.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 316-322 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | Applied Energy |
| Volume | 90 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Feb 2012 |
UN SDGs
This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
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SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy
Keywords
- Adsorption desalination
- Cooling
- Silica gel-water
- Thermodynamic cycles
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Building and Construction
- General Energy
- Mechanical Engineering
- Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
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